A series of explosions rocked Brussels Tuesday morning in response to last week's arrest of Salah Abdeslam, a terrorist behind last year's attacks in Paris. Reports say at least a dozen people have been killed.

The bombings prompted officials to increase security in the U.S. as well, including a visibly increased police presence at airports and on public transit in New York City, CNBC reported. The Washington metro system said on Twitter that they would step up K9 sweeps and patrols on Tuesday, but stressed that there was "no known, specific or credible threat at this time."

The first explosion occurred just outside the security gate at Brussels' major airport, the Wall Street Journal reported. The second, about an hour later, struck the Maelbeek metro station near the European Union.

BBC reported that at least 13 people had been killed in the airport blast. It's unclear if anyone was killed in the metro attack.

The metro and tram systems have been closed and the terror alert in the city has been raised to its highest level, according to reports.

Abdeslam was arrested on Friday in Brussels almost four months after a string of violence in Paris killed more than 100 people. He faced questioning over the weekend from a hospital bed in Brussels after being shot in leg during his capture.

In the immediate wake of Tuesday morning’s coordinated terror attacks on Brussels’ national airport and a key subway station near the European Commission, other European nations are scrambling to reinforce security measures while simultaneously reassuring their citizens.

Belgium immediately sent 225 extra troops to Brussels and ramped up controls at its borders, while similar measures are being carried out in other nations.

Rome’s two airports have been placed on maximum alert, and all flights to and from Brussels have been cancelled. Police stations and other security forces throughout Italy have been ordered to reinforce security measures at airports, railway stations, subways, and all areas considered at risk.

Italian intelligence sources said that the risk of similar attacks in Italy remains high and Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has called for a special meeting of the National Security Committee for 3:00 this afternoon.

Twin bomb attacks that rocked the capital of Belgium this morning have served to throw fresh light on comments made by Donald Trump back in January when he was criticized for labeling Brussels a jihadist “hellhole”.

Dozens of people were killed and many more injured after attacks at Brussels international airport and a city metro station.

The attacks were as predictable as they were tragic. Brussels is the jihadist capital of Europe, having supplied the highest number of foreign fighters per capita in Iraq and Syria.

Radicalized Muslim ghettos like Molenbeek serve as breeding grounds for Islamic terrorism, with Paris massacre culprit Salah Abdeslam having been able to hide in and around the area for four months with the help of “friends and neighbors,” proving once again that many Muslims are sympathetic to jihadist sentiment.

Republican front runner Donald Trump identified Brussels as a jihadist hotbed back in January, but he was criticized for ‘insulting’ the Belgian capital by numerous media outlets and pundits.

Asked by Fox Business Network anchor Maria Bartiromo about his plan to put a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States, Trump cited Brussels as an example of how the failure of immigrants to assimilate was ruining Europe.

“There is something going on, Maria,” he said. “Go to Brussels. Go to Paris. Go to different places. There is something going on and it’s not good, where they want Shariah law, where they want this, where they want things that — you know, there has to be some assimilation. There is no assimilation. There is something bad going on.”

“You go to Brussels — I was in Brussels a long time ago, 20 years ago, so beautiful, everything is so beautiful — it’s like living in a hellhole right now,” Trump added.

Notice that media outlets have now openly stated all Muslims are complicit here. What message do you think that sends out to the general public? Who does it benefit to have the public blame one specific social group for the world's problems?

Notice that media outlets have now openly stated all Muslims are complicit here. What message do you think that sends out to the general public? Who does it benefit to have the public blame one specific social group for the world's problems?

I am not sure. Maybe this is "inside job" to stop "spring invasion" of Muslim migrants ??

Belgium is on high alert after a security officer for a nuclear plant was found dead with his work pass stolen.

The concerning development, which occurred on Thursday but was only reported today by Dernière Heure, comes after concerns the Brussels bombers had been plotting to create a radioactive “dirty bomb” that would scatter nuclear material in a crowded public place.

The security officer was reportedly shot dead as he walked his dog in the city of Charleroi. Authorities quickly cancelled his pass.While the motive for the murder remains unknown, police are looking into the theory he was killed to steal his pass and gain access to a nuclear facility.

Breitbart London reported yesterday that eleven nuclear workers have had their security passes revoked amid fears the Brussels attackers wanted to steal nuclear material to build a dirty bomb.

Anyone else notice the timing on this one just after Putin pulled out of Syria? Yet another terrorist attack in Europe has been blamed on Islamic extremists and ISIS and yet another instance of the suspects in the attacks having been previously known to security services and intelligence agencies in the years, months, weeks, and days leading up to the event. That is exactly what happened in Brussels, Belgium on March 22, 2016. Lending credence to those who suggest that the Brussels attacks were false flags (meaning directed, orchestrated, or allowed by Western intelligence agencies), it is being reported that, yet again, the perpetrators were known to police and security services prior to the attack. This suggests a number of possibilities in the false flag vein such as:

Belgium is on high alert after a security officer for a nuclear plant was found dead with his work pass stolen.

The concerning development, which occurred on Thursday but was only reported today by Dernière Heure, comes after concerns the Brussels bombers had been plotting to create a radioactive “dirty bomb” that would scatter nuclear material in a crowded public place.

The security officer was reportedly shot dead as he walked his dog in the city of Charleroi. Authorities quickly cancelled his pass.While the motive for the murder remains unknown, police are looking into the theory he was killed to steal his pass and gain access to a nuclear facility.

Breitbart London reported yesterday that eleven nuclear workers have had their security passes revoked amid fears the Brussels attackers wanted to steal nuclear material to build a dirty bomb.

TEL AVIV – The deadly terrorist attacks in Brussels last week and in Paris last November are dress rehearsals for a coming “big” attack inside the United States, a leading Islamic State-allied militant claimed in an exclusive interview.

Abu al-Ayna al-Ansari, a Salafist movement senior official in the Gaza Strip, made the claim in a pre-recorded, hour-long interview to air in full on Sunday on “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio,” the popular weekend talk radio program broadcast on New York’s AM 970 The Answer and NewsTalk 990 AM in Philadelphia. Klein doubles as Breitbart’s senior investigative reporter and Jerusalem bureau chief.

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Klein asked Ansari whether IS maintains cells inside the U.S. and if the terrorist group is “planning anything in America.”

Ansari responded:

Aaron, the battle with America is a very long one, a very tough one, a very hard one. America has a black record with the mujahedeen, and this black record will not be purified but with blood, and lots of blood. Only blood will cleanse what America did to the mujahedeen. And I can confirm that our leadership made it very clear that what happened in Paris, what happened in Brussels was only a small rehearsal before the big thing that will happen in America.

This is the commitment; this is the engagement of our leadership to the mujahedeen. I cannot give details and the truth is that I don’t know the small details – how many agents we have and where we have them. This depends on our leaders, the Caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and the general military commander, Abu Omar al-Shishani. They will decide when and where to strike in the United States.

But I can tell you that when we are in touch with our different components, with the leaders of the Islamic State. They confirm, they make it very sure and very clear that it is only a question of time when there will be a strike in America. And as I said before, what you saw in Paris, what you saw in Brussels will be only a small rehearsal in comparison with what will happen in the United States.

QUESTION:Why is the image of that guy in the frontrow smudged out? WTF API? Someone is hiding hisface so he will not be identified, that's why! Notice heis the only one with his face showing, except the bigred-headed RUSSIAN, who is the guy they REPORTEDLYkilled in an airstrike a couple of weeks ago.

WHY on GOD'S EARTH WOULD WE HIDE the IDENTITY of ONE of THESE CRAZY MANIACS?

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Belgium is to provide iodine pills to its entire population of around 11 million people to protect against radioactivity in case of a nuclear accident, the health minister was quoted as saying Thursday.

The BBC reported that Health Minister Maggie De Block explained that the entire population will be issued with the pills, which protect against radiation in case of a nuclear threat, as a precaution following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.

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Last month eleven of the reactor’s staff had their security passes revoked as the country went on high alert after warnings that Europe-based jihadists linked with Islamic State plotted a radioactive bomb attack.